Thursday, April

Thursday April 7 , 2022

It’s Monday night and once again, this is the last thing that I’m doing for the papers this week. I don’t really have a topic, so I’m just going to ramble around and find something to fill the space that I’m sure my editor has saved for me because most of the paper is finished and they are just waiting on me to bang out this column. After that last sentence, I’m pretty sure that I lost most of you, but to the ones that are still with me, I say Thank You. I have been banging out a weekly column for over 20 years and it’s rare that a week goes by that I don’t receive a comment from somebody about something that I wrote in a column. My problem is that by the time that you are reading this column, half of the next week has passed and I’ve already started formulating my thoughts for the next column.......you know I’m a slow thinker and it takes me a while to gather my thoughts. Add to that the fact that it may have been a column from a couple of weeks ago that tickled somebody’s thought process and I’m usually pretty far removed from remembering just exactly what I said and what I wrote in the particular column that the person that I run into in the Post Office is referencing. Once we get into the conversation, I can usually remember enough to carry on a discussion about my column, but occasionally, I’m clueless. The person on the other end of the conversation must think that I’m missing a few brain cells because who can’t remember what they’ve written, but honestly folks, there’s quite a bit of stuff that goes through the ol cabeza and I’m getting older by the minute and more forgetful by the second. Anyway, enough about that, let’s get to what I was going to write about this week. I could tell you about the fantastic Walker County Fair Premium Sale that I attended last Thursday evening and the record setting amount of money that was gathered up at the sale. I could also tell you about the first of four events that I attended last Friday night and that was the Walker County Bar-BQue Cookoff. I could tell you that thanks to a wonderful cook and a good friend, I was able to get some ribs and brisket a little early because he knew that I had to go to another function and he indulged me and served me right off of the pit. I could also tell you about the quick stop that I made to snap a few pictures of the Walker County Fair Scramble Heifer Show and ran into another friend who introduced me to his friend that had graduated from the same High School as I had(although 20 years later). I could tell you about the mad dash to my house to clean up and change clothes before going to a wonderful event called Wine Quest that is sponsored by the Huntsville Rotary Club and finally, I could tell you about the last stop on my night as I went to The Old Town Theatre to take a few pictures of a Garth Brooks Tribute Show, but I’m not going to tell you about all of that stuff. The reason that I’m not going to tell you about all of that is that a few weeks ago, a fellow came into my office and was visiting with my Office Manager and he told her that I sure liked to talk about myself in my column. Well, yes, I do. It’s my column and what else am I going to write about??? If I start writing about other people, I will be accused of gossipping. If I write about political stuff, I’ll surely get in trouble and I don’t go to see many movies, therefore I can’t include a movie review. So, you’ll just have to put up with me writing about me. I’ve been so busy with all of the things going on in my life that I don’t even have a Sonic story to tell you. I’ll be traveling this next weekend as I am covering a Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Ft. Worth. I’m not going to tell you what it’s about, but it’s in Ft. Worth and I like Rodeo, so maybe you guys can connect the dots. I’ll tell you all about it next week, but until then, I’m.......... Wade in the Shade.

Lifestyle

Walker County Press-Page 14

Disclaimer: This column is the opinion of Publisher Wade A. Thibodeaux and may contain subject matter on a variety of topics, but usually contains humor of some description. An occasional serious thought may be thrown in to entice the reader to think.